Mysterious music doesn't go away

[tomoedinburgh]

Have I got a trojan? :eek: My laptop is taken over by some weird software and keeps playing this music (innocuous dance music,
which is not from my HD thats for sure). I dont know where it came from. My
CD tray is empty. AVG search founds nothing wrong. What is this?
I can turn the volume down.. but nohting else.

Does anyone have any suggestion what is happening here?

 

[Frostmourne]

Go to the sounds applet in control panel and in the sound tab, make sure windows default is applied. Then look if anyone changed the settings.

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Hello tomoedinburgh,
Try taking a look in Task Manager, (ctrl+alt+del), see what is running there, you may be able to spot the rouge music player in services or processes.
A haunted laptop would be a first though, woooooooooowooooooooo
Take a look and post your results, good luck.

 

[tomoedinburgh]

ah, this is embarassing. I CAN"T open the task manager. I used to be able to.
Now nothing comes out when I press these keys. Whats happening to
my laptop? Is this virus? Is there anyway i can get to task manager other than
pressing the keys?

 

[whs]

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[stoneys-nutz]

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[tomoedinburgh]

I got the task manager. my laptop uses ctl shift and esc but thats besides the point.
so many is in process but I cannot find any suspicious entity there,,,,

how do you identity a rogue program in the TM?

by the way, i narrowed down the culpit. When I log off Firefox, it stops.
but it does not come from any one website.

the song singing "Im in chain...." Feck off.......

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Have you installed any firefox addons, toolbars, or anything like that, they some times cause weird things to happen.

 

[zigzag3143]

Stoney is right and one that comes to mind is foxytunes. You can launch FF without addons to check

 

[tomoedinburgh]

Yes, Stoney and Ziazag, thank you, I did install new adds on for FireFox, coz I was
prompted to do so!

So... what shall I do? Shall I uninstall what? entire FF? but I liked FF until now. There must be millions of FF users out there who are going nuts shouting "whats going on?!" or is it only me in the whole world?

 

[CrucialHoax]

Yes, Stoney and Ziazag, thank you, I did install new adds on for FireFox, coz I was
prompted to do so!

So... what shall I do? Shall I uninstall what? entire FF? but I liked FF until now. There must be millions of FF users out there who are going nuts shouting "whats going on?!" or is it only me in the whole world?

No, just right click, and choose start without Add-ons, if the music stops you know that it was a bad Add-on. So to solve this, simply uninstall all Add-ons, then install one by one until you find the one causing the issue

 

[MrNeeds]

 

[stoneys-nutz]

You could also disable all add on's, then enable them one at a time to see which one is the culprit.

 

[whs]

Why don't you just disable the adds or use another browser. I use 6 different browsers, depending on what I want to do.

 

[tomoedinburgh]

I deleted one adds on. But the music is still there.
I right clicked the icon, then chose "Firefox options" and from there
"Manage adds on" and only one of them was related to Firefox.
It was to do with toolbar. Other adds on there are for different
softwares. I could not find any more adds on there.

Is there a place where I can find the lists of all the Firefox adds on?

 

[LanceIot]

Yes, Stoney and Ziazag, thank you, I did install new adds on for FireFox, coz I was
prompted to do so!

So... what shall I do? Shall I uninstall what? entire FF? but I liked FF until now. There must be millions of FF users out there who are going nuts shouting "whats going on?!" or is it only me in the whole world?

I had Firefox and decided to remove the whole lot. However, the programme is adequate, just remove the add ons if you want to keep it.

 

[skunksmash]

you'll find ALL Firefox addons HERE...

 

[tomoedinburgh]

thank you skunk, but what i need is not the list of adds on available but the adds on I got in my computer. I need to find out what adds on or file is playing this song.

Any suggestion?

 

[tomoedinburgh]

crucial hoax, you told me to choose start without add on,
but how can i do it?

 

[CrucialHoax]

There is another post in this thread that displays a picture on how to do that. I tried the method I gave you and it didn't seem to work. Please use the other method